Sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of psychological distress (PD) at baseline among 742 adult participants in the Manicaland study who were included in the analysis of the association between PD and later development of hypertension
| Population distribution | Prevalence of PD | |||
| Proportion (%) | No of participants (N) | Proportion (%) | P value* | |
| Gender | <0.001 | |||
| Male | 31.4 | 233 | 4.3 | |
| Female | 68.6 | 509 | 13.1 | |
| Age group | 0.021 | |||
| <35 years | 65.1 | 483 | 8.5 | |
| ≥35 years | 34.9 | 259 | 13.9 | |
| Marital status | 0.006 | |||
| Never married | 10.6 | 79 | 3.8 | |
| Married | 70.1 | 520 | 9.6 | |
| Separated, divorced or widowed | 19.2 | 143 | 16.8 | |
| Site type | 0.600 | |||
| Periurban | 25.3 | 188 | 12.2 | |
| Agricultural estates | 25.0 | 185 | 10.3 | |
| Rural | 49.7 | 369 | 9.5 | |
| Level of education | 0.002 | |||
| Primary and below | 37.2 | 276 | 14.8 | |
| Secondary and above | 62.8 | 466 | 7.7 | |
| Employment status | 0.210 | |||
| Unemployed | 69.1 | 513 | 11.3 | |
| Employed | 30.9 | 229 | 8.3 | |
| Wealth index | 0.150 | |||
| Least wealthy | 16.4 | 122 | 12.3 | |
| Less wealthy | 41.6 | 308 | 11.4 | |
| More wealthy | 30.3 | 225 | 10.7 | |
| Most wealthy | 11.7 | 87 | 3.4 | |
| Smoking | 0.190 | |||
| No | 90.7 | 673 | 10.8 | |
| Yes | 9.3 | 69 | 5.8 | |
| Alcohol consumption | 0.051 | |||
| No | 83.0 | 616 | 11.4 | |
| Yes | 17.0 | 126 | 5.5 | |
| Use of drugs for pleasure | 0.650 | |||
| No | 92.2 | 684 | 10.5 | |
| Yes | 7.8 | 58 | 8.6 | |
*P value is derived from a χ2 test comparing participants with PD to participants without PD.